Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 60 to 56. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)'s sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 75.2 against 67.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Verified, 39 to 24. Seed 1.6 Flash does hit back in multimodal & grounded, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Seed 1.6 Flash is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.08 input / $0.30 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning). That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Seed 1.6 Flash gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning).
Pick Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Seed 1.6 Flash only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 256K context window.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
58.5
Seed 1.6 Flash
54.5
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
35
Seed 1.6 Flash
27.6
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
71.5
Seed 1.6 Flash
73.1
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
69.2
Seed 1.6 Flash
66.8
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
52.1
Seed 1.6 Flash
47.3
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
81
Seed 1.6 Flash
81
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
77.8
Seed 1.6 Flash
72.8
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning)
75.2
Seed 1.6 Flash
67.1
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) is ahead overall, 60 to 56. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Verified, where the scores are 39 and 24.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 52.1 versus 47.3. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 35 versus 27.6. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 75.2 versus 67.1. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 69.2 versus 66.8. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 58.5 versus 54.5. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Seed 1.6 Flash has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 73.1 versus 71.5. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) and Seed 1.6 Flash are effectively tied for instruction following here, both landing at 81 on average.
Ministral 3 14B (Reasoning) has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.8 versus 72.8. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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